Allah's Willing Executioners

An Islamist terrorist who plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange was allowed to stay in Britain despite having his asylum claim turned down.

Shah Rahman was jailed in 2012 – alongside three other extremists inspired by Al-Qaeda – over the plot.

Just five years later, he was released onto Britain’s streets, but was later recalled to prison in 2022 for breaches of his license.

However, a fresh immigration case involving his wife has uncovered that the terrorist had been allowed to remain in the country despite having his asylum claim turned down.

Rahman married Mauritian national Parveen Purbhoo while on license in 2019 in an Islamic ceremony in London.

She was later barred from Britain for life by then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman after officers at Heathrow Airport uncovered Isis-related material on her phone.

Her relation to Rahman can now be revealed after legal restrictions were lifted.

The judgement in the Mauritian national’s case revealed that Rahman had lodged an unsuccessful asylum claim – shortly after his release from prison.

His application was rejected under Article 51 of the Refugee Convention, which can deny refugee status for those convicted of “war crimes, crimes against humanity, terrorist acts or other serious criminal offences”.

However, despite the claim being turned down, he was allowed to stay in Britain after a judge ruled that deporting the convicted terrorist would be a breach of his human rights.

The judgement read: “He was granted restricted leave to remain in the United Kingdom on the basis that he could not be removed to Bangladesh without breach of his rights under Article 3 of the Human Rights Convention.”

This article guarantees the absolute right to be free from torture, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

Following her 2019 wedding ceremony at the East London Mosque, Purbhoo applied for entry clearance to Britain.

Her first application was denied, but was accepted after she applied a second time.

After returning to Mauritius at the beginning of the pandemic, Purbhoo returned to Britain in August 2021 to formalise her marriage to Rahman in a civil ceremony.

After touching down at Heathrow, officers searched her phone and discovered Isis-related videos and images featuring soldiers and Islamist propaganda.

Despite the discovery, she was allowed to enter the country and lived with her husband until he was recalled to prison in 2022 for failing to inform probations services of a bank account, email address and phone.

A parole board’s forensic psychology report noted Rahman’s wife as being “complicit in the breaches for which Mr Rahman was convicted”.

On Monday, the Mauritian national was denied the right to appeal against her permanent exclusion from Britain.

The judgement said: “The applicant was complicit in Mr Rahman’s unlawful breach of notification requirements; and she has not provided either the police or SIAC with an explanation of how Islamist material came to be on her phone.

“Her willingness to place her own interests over and above legal or administrative processes is troubling and risky.”

It found the decision to bar her from Britain proportionate and said she had been “reasonably assessed as a national security risk”.

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A newly unearthed photograph taken in Rome in 1983 shows a young Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, participating in a left-leaning mass demonstration against NATO missile deployment.

On April 14 Luca Casarini, an Italian left-wing activist known for his role in the “no-global” movement and, more recently, for his work in migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean, posted an image on his Facebook profile showing a young Father Robert Prevost during a peace march. Several news outlets have since picked up the story.

“You’ve come a long way, brother Robert. But you haven’t changed direction,” Casarini commented in his post.

On October 22, 1983, during a large march for peace held in Rome against the installation of NATO Cruise missiles in Comiso, Sicily, and across Europe, a young Prevost – not long ordained and engaged in studies in canon law – was photographed among a group of members of the Augustinian order carrying a sign reading, “Giovani agostiniani per la pace” (“Young Augustinians for Peace”).

The protest, which drew close to a million participants, took place amid heightened Cold War tensions and widespread mobilization for nuclear disarmament, and was organized by a broad coalition of pacifist groups and political organizations, including the Italian Communist Party (PCI), the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI), and peace committees active at NATO bases.

The black-and-white image, which has recently circulated widely on social media platforms, shows Prevost in the front row of demonstrators. According to sources, the photograph was taken by Gianni Novelli, a Stigmatine priest known for his involvement in the Base Christian Communities and for his leadership within Cipax, the Interconfessional Center for Peace.

Novelli played a prominent role in ecclesial networks associated with non-violence and peace activism, and became a leading figure of the so‑called “Catholic dissent” initiative after the Second Vatican Council. After leaving his religious order, he devoted himself to pacifism in an ecumenical sense.

The Base Christian Communities (in Spanish: comunidades de base), which had emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy and Latin America, played a role in fostering grassroots engagement on left-leaning social and political issues. These communities were later viewed with particular interest by Pope Francis.

The unearthed image was first published a decade later, in 1993, in the Italian magazine Mosaico di pace, within a feature dedicated to Christian commitment to non-violence. At that time, the photograph was presented as part of a broader reflection on the involvement of Catholic groups in peace movements during the Cold War period.

Decades after it was taken, the photograph gained public attention again. According to the same sources, in November 2025, Archbishop Giovanni Ricchiuti, national president of Pax Christi, presented a copy of the image to Pope Leo XIV during an official meeting.

The demonstration in which Prevost participated formed part of a wider movement opposing the deployment of Euromissiles in Europe in the late 1970s and ‘80s. The installation of Cruise missiles at Italy’s Comiso air base had become a focal point for international protest, drawing activists, religious figures, and political groups into coordinated action. The Rome rally represented one of the largest such mobilizations in Italy and in the world during that period.

However, the global mobilization against the missiles was part of a broader international landscape of opposition to the Cold War – often encouraged by the USSR, which included pro‑peace propaganda aimed at undermining the U.S. nuclear strategy directed against Russia.

It is perfectly possible Prevost may have taken part more for peace and nuclear disarmament rather than for the organizer – the communists. However, it still appears naïve on his part largely because the organizers were part of the Italian Communist Party (notoriously a cell of the USSR, directly financed with Kremlin funds).

In particular, the Italian Communist Party operated – as historians now widely acknowledge – as a Soviet propaganda outpost. The pacifism promoted by the Russians also served the purpose of internal disruption and of slowing the deterrence efforts of the NATO bloc.

The photo can also be found among the images preserved in the historical archive of the Italian Communist Party. Alongside the Augustinians (see here), members of several other religious orders – such as Franciscans and Jesuits – also took part in the event. The demonstration, held in those days also in other important European cities such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Bonn, brought together people of all religions and political orientations, though it was clearly oriented in an anti‑NATO direction.

The Magisterium of the Catholic Church teaches that socialism in all its forms, including communism, is infallibly condemned. As Pope Pius XI stated in his 1937 encyclical Divini Redemptoris: “Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever. Those who permit themselves to be deceived into lending their aid towards the triumph of Communism in their own country will be the first to fall victims of their error.”

Luca Casarini was personally invited by Pope Francis to take part in the Synod on Synodality held at the Vatican from October 4 to 29, 2023, as one of the lay guests with the right to speak but not to vote. His presence was both highly symbolic and controversial.

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by Olivia Murray 

What’s the point in dying for your country when, instead of your death

serving as a payment for a prosperous and secure future for your children and culture, your government just hands it over to foreigners who hate you and all that you were? Today, Remix News reported that Ukrainian officials are working on a new plan to replace all their war dead men with third world aliens from the darkest corners of the globe: Islamic Africa.

Well, let be be more clear: Zelensky’s administration isn’t looking to send these newcomer imports to the warfront to really get a full sense of citizenship and national responsibility—that’s a position reserved for the white, Slavic natives—these Africans are going to be sent to Ukraine to fill the jobs left vacant when the Ukrainian fathers, husbands, and brothers reported for duty, or were dragged into a van and hauled off to the battlefield under “mobilization” policies. The role of cannon fodder is exclusively reserved for the Ukrainian men.

Volodymyr Zelensky’s head of his Presidential Office in Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, has announced plans to import migrant laborers from Africa. Essentially, this entails Ukraine establishing new laws for the legal entry and residence of foreign workers.

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It has long been known that Ukraine faces a serious demographic crisis, now exacerbated by men who have died in the war or fled to other countries. Already, there have been voices pushing for mass immigration in Ukraine since the war began. Last year, Remix News reported that Vasyl Voskobojnik, president of the Ukrainian Association of Foreign Employment Agencies, said the population decline can no longer be offset by simply increasing the birthrate. Instead, immigration from Third-World countries is the only solution.

Voskobojnik said the Ukrainian government must develop a migration policy by 2026 that focuses on reducing this shortage.

As for the African men? They’ll get all those non-military positions in the private and/or public sector, far from the danger, complete with government-funded healthcare and pensions, largely thanks to American taxpayers—though it’s a thankless role as gracious benefactor. Ukraine has a public healthcare system, which we taxpayers are routinely forced to prop up, and USAID funds have long been used to pay for government expenses, including pensions (though one of the aid packages disbursed by the Biden administration prohibited those particular funds from being used in that way).

Far be it from me to think that individuals who really are just a scourge on the rest of humanity be the ones to go first into the Russian meatgrinder, especially when you consider that they’re being handed all the perks of a functioning country without any of the sacrifice—in fact, not only are they not expected to earn any of those benefits, but they’re set to receive them…at the bloody expense of legitimate citizens.

(Seriously, do third world Islamic hordes provide any positive impact on the rest of the world? Not to be callous, but do they offer any value to anyone?)

Though, could they even be trusted on the front? Obviously that’s rhetorical, because of course not.

I know I’ve been quoting Pat Buchanan quite a bit in recent days, but his observations about the “seething racial resentment” from the third world and directed at the first is just so aproipos—but there’s also another application for it. The progressive left of the first world also possesses the exact same attitude, but it’s so much worse because the disdain is for their own people.

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German media is full of headlines like ‘German crime figures: Are migrants unfairly targeted?’

“Is it true that the crime rate in Germany is higher among immigrants? Statistics suggest as much, but numbers by themselves can be misleading. An expert explains what’s behind them.”

Experts. What would we do without them?

The crime statistics are bad otherwise they wouldn’t be doing this kind of song and dance.

Syrian nationals in Germany are almost eleven times more likely to be identified as suspects in violent crimes than German citizens.

According to de Vries, the rate of offenses is even higher for serious sexual crimes : Afghan nationals top the list – with a figure that is around 14 times higher than that of Germans.

Overall, foreign suspects are “significantly overrepresented” in violent crimes (over 43 percent) and serious sexual offenses (39.6 percent), according to de Vries. The crime rate is particularly striking among individuals from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Morocco – those immigrant groups who primarily came to Germany in the last decade.

We’re not supposed to say what these ‘immigrant groups’ have in common.

De Vries drew a clear conclusion: ” Asylum migration from the Arab world in the past decade has made our country less safe, especially for women,” said the CDU politician.

At the same time, he differentiated: Most immigrant groups, especially from the EU, South America, and large parts of Asia, live “righteously and peacefully in our country.”

Somehow I don’t think it’s the Arab Christians behind all those rapes.

Now, non-citizens are a fairly small part of the population, but a huge part of the criminal population.

About 16% of the total population of Germany don’t have German citizenship, yet they accounted for roughly 34% of suspects in crimes as diverse as theft, burglary and violent crimes.

At least the crime is diverse.

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A Turkish woman claiming “Level 6 care” appeared to be in perfect health during a check at Vienna Airport, leading authorities to believe she was able to “walk normally and without an assistant” in a brazen case of suspected fraud.

According to investigators at Schwechat Airport in Lower Austria, the woman was returning from a holiday home in her native country of Turkey when she “strolled into the control check” during a priority check by the Criminal Investigation Department.

Officers noted that she “showed no walking aids, visible disabilities, or other abnormalities,” which contradicted her official status as someone “seriously ill.”

The subsequent investigation revealed that the woman had been receiving a Level 6 care allowance of €1,685.40 month a month in Austria.

Under Austrian law, this level of “aid money is actually reserved for people or caregivers of people who rely on particularly intensive care around the clock and are often no longer able to walk independently.”

Suspicious of her mobility, the welfare fraud task force (SOLBE) initiated a follow-up medical examination. The results confirmed the officers’ doubts: the recipient was “actually perfectly healthy,” leading to the immediate cancellation of her care allowance.

The financial impact of this case is significant, with investigators estimating that the woman had, over the course of her fraud, collected €150,000 illegally. As Heute news outlet outlines, this incident highlights a broader trend, as “welfare fraud explodes, and most cases are in Vienna.”

Vienna also happens to have the largest foreign population in Austria, and the country, like many other European countries, is facing billions in costs linked to mass immigration, including social benefits, housing, and education.

Notably, nearly all cases of welfare fraud are linked to foreigners, totaling approximately 70 percent.

“More than 70 percent of the suspects are not Austrian citizens,” Gerald Tatzgern, head of the department for combating welfare fraud, said last year. One common form of fraud is couples registering at different apartments to receive higher benefits, while still living in the same house or apartment.

Just last month, Remix News reported on another Turkish asylum family that was ordered to repay €66,000 in welfare benefits after an investigation found the father owned a large vineyard, an Istanbul apartment, and €150,000 in Bitcoin.

Foreigners are vastly overrepresented in welfare statistics overall in Austria. In the small city of St. Pölten, for example, 72 percent of welfare recipients are foreigners.

At the same time, these same foreign groups are committing an extremely disproportionate amount of crime in the country, committing nearly half of all crimes.

Brigadier Gerald Tatzgern, head of the welfare fraud task force, recently published its findings, noting that the unit has uncovered damage of around €158 million since its inception.

Tatzgern and his team attribute the spike in reported crimes to “recently intensified controls.” While the authorities recorded only “472 reports” in 2016, that number “rose significantly to 6,062 by 2025.”

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In Italian, there is a saying: “The elephant in the china shop” — something obvious and problematic that everyone can see but no one addresses for fear of causing damage.

The phrase surfaced repeatedly on April 18 in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo during a demonstration organised by the pan-European right-wing group Patriots for Europe.

It referred to the recent tensions between the administration of US President Donald Trump and European right-wing parties — an issue widely discussed behind the scenes, but largely avoided on stage.

Only Matteo Salvini, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the League, briefly touched on it, insisting that transatlantic relations are not in question.

Called “Without fear. In Europe, masters in our own home,” the event was organised by Salvini, who brought together representatives from across Europe belonging to the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament.

Among those addressing the crowd were Jordan Bardella, President of France’s Rassemblement National (RN), Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, Voice of Reason leader Afroditi Latinopoulou of Greece, Vlaams Belang leader Tom Van Grieken of Belgium and Vox President Santiago Abascal of Spain (via video link), alongside other party chiefs from across the continent.

The rally focused on themes typical of the sovereigntist Right: Opposition to mass immigration, criticism of Islamic extremism and attacks on the European Commission and its President Ursula von der Leyen.

The demonstration began with a march through the streets of Milan before concluding in Piazza del Duomo, beneath the city’s cathedral, where speakers addressed a crowd estimated at between 2,500 and 4,500 people.

The event took place at a politically sensitive moment, which several participating politicians as well as ordinary attendees described in interviews with Brussels Signal yesterday as “problematic,” “difficult” and “delicate” for Europe’s right-wing movements.

Two main concerns dominated discussions among attendees: The recent electoral setback of Viktor Orbán, a key figure within the Patriots for Europe alliance, and recent actions by the US administration seen by many as not always aligned with European interests.

In particular, the latest escalation involving Iran — and its economic repercussions for Europe — was frequently cited as already affecting citizens’ daily lives, especially through rising fuel prices.

Paolo Borchia, the League’s delegation leader in the European Parliament, told Brussels Signal there is a “cry of distress” coming from local communities due to rising prices and what he described as the harmful effects of the Green Deal, the EU Stability Pact and price increases linked to the US-led escalation involving Iran. He argued the Right must address these issues in response to its electorate.

Stressing the hope for positive relations with the US, he said Italy and Europe need predictability in transatlantic co-operation, a predictability that is not always a defining feature of Trump.

Among demonstrators interviewed, opinions on recent US actions varied.

Some strongly defended Trump, saying he should be supported “without ifs or buts”. The majority, though, expressed reservations about his recent conduct, reflecting a broader view that US decisions do not necessarily coincide with the priorities of the Italian and European Right.

Most respondents supported the critical positions adopted by Salvini and by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in recent days, although these criticisms were not voiced from the stage during the rally.

The rally itself did not produce clear signs of a new strategy for handling tensions with the US or responding to Orbán’s electoral setback.

Instead, speakers largely called for unity and cohesion in what they repeatedly described as a “delicate,” “difficult” and “problematic” moment.

Whether the Patriots for Europe group will adjust its strategy in response to transatlantic tensions and Orbán’s defeat remains unclear. For now, the prevailing message is one of unity, as the movement seeks to navigate an increasingly complex political phase.

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A survey in Spain found some 80.5 percent of individuals aged 17 – 25 reject the socialist government’s mass amnesty plans for half a million illegal migrants, the digital newspaper El Español reported on Sunday.

The survey was conducted by the polling and research firm SocioMétrica for El Español between April 15 and 18 — the same week that the socialist government led by Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez began its mass amnesty process to benefit 500,000 illegal migrants in Spain with legal residence and work permits.

The Spanish government launched the highly criticized amnesty process despite a fierce rejection from the nation’s population and parliament.

El Español detailed that, per SocioMétrica‘s findings, the measure is not just overwhelmingly rejected by the Spanish youth, but by the Spanish population in general, with 66.7 percent of respondents expressing to be against the mass amnesty plans against roughly one third of respondents who expressed to be in favor of it.

The rejection is noticeably higher among members of the center-right People’s Party (PP) and near-unanimous among members of the anti-mass migration VOX party, with 85 percent of PP members and 97.5 percent of Vox members expressing their rejection.

Despite widespread rejection to the measure, the Spanish socialist government executed the ongoing mass amnesty plans through a Royal Decree, which allows the socialist government to bypass the need from parliamentary approval, where Sánchez did not had enough votes to get it approved.

SocioMétrica found that 72 percent of respondents expressed their concerns that the amnesty will have a “pull effect” that attracts more illegal immigrants to Spain in the hope of obtaining a residence permit like the half a million that will soon receive said benefits.

Notably, the sentiment is also shared by 40.7 percent of respondents that voted for the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), who also said that they have concerns over the “pull effect” that the amnesty could generate.

Additionally, SocioMétrica found that an overwhelming majority does not believe in the Spanish government’s claims that injecting hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants into the nation’s labor market “will help ensure the sustainability of pensions” in light of Spain’s low birth rate. 65.7 percent of respondents said that mass regularization of illegals “will not help the sustainability of pensions.”

El Español published the survey hours after Prime Minister Sánchez attributed criticism of his mass amnesty plans to “xenophobia” against migrants during his participation at an international gathering of progressive heads of state and politicians in Madrid.

En España estamos impulsando un proceso de regularización de medio millón de inmigrantes, y les digo a la derecha y a la ultraderecha que se oponen: sí, España es hija de la migración y no será madre de la xenofobia.@sanchezcastejon en #GPM2026 pic.twitter.com/Ny05o8S1q3

— PSOE (@PSOE) April 18, 2026

“Here in Spain, we are approving and promoting a process to regularize the status of half a million immigrants,” Sánchez said on Saturday. ”

And I want to tell the right and the far right who oppose this that Spain is a product of migration and will not be a mother of xenophobia.”

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One of the biggest challenges Jordan Bardella must convincingly navigate if he is to definitively establish himself as a credible candidate for the presidential election is the economy. For years, the Rassemblement National (RN) has suffered from a poor reputation in this regard, being labelled a statist or socialist party that would scare off investors and entrepreneurs. Against this backdrop, a meeting with the MEDEF, France’s main employers’ organisation, was held in Paris on Monday, April 20.

Bardella is not receiving any special treatment in this regard. Traditionally, as major elections approach, MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France) takes the time to meet individually with all candidates to examine their platforms and assess the reforms to be expected in the event of a victory. Bardella was therefore invited to a lunch with MEDEF representatives, just days after an informal dinner between Marine Le Pen and several executives from CAC 40 companies on Tuesday, April 7th, in the name of “mutual curiosity.”

For the RN, this remains a delicate and somewhat nerve-wracking exercise, given the many preconceptions the business community holds about the party. However, in light of the poor results delivered over two terms by Emmanuel Macron—despite the promising pledges made regarding the French economy at the time of his election—the business world may now be more inclined to show greater openness to political alternatives.

The central issue revolves around the RN’s stance on economic liberalism: business leaders accuse the party of being overly interventionist and excessively statist and, therefore, in their view, “left-wing.” Opponents of the RN, including figures on the Right such as Éric Zemmour, are keen to perpetuate this label.

Bardella reaffirmed his commitment to “freedom of enterprise” before the business leaders: “I am not left-wing; I am not ashamed of business,” he explained. This is a recurring theme for the RN that has gained momentum since the lengthy series of debates preceding the budget vote: the party intends to present itself as resolutely liberal, in the classical and French sense of the term.

The meeting organised at MEDEF was accompanied by a letter addressed to business leaders and published simultaneously on X by Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen—with uncertainty still reigning, at least officially, over who will represent the party in the 2027 race. One of the central pillars of the economic programme consists of a vast simplification drive, aimed at freeing French businesses from the countless regulations that stifle them. The “simplification shock” was promised by Macron in his time but has still not been delivered.

In the preamble, the RN explains that it wants to involve business leaders in its “discussions aimed at identifying and removing the regulatory barriers that are holding back France’s economic development.” The details of the measures have yet to be announced, but their broad outlines are as follows: in the event of victory, implement the necessary simplifications by decree to ensure swift roll-out; limit the over-transposition of European regulations; and streamline administrative rules that hinder competitiveness and investment capacity. Several figures have been appointed to lead these meetings and discussions with business leaders: Alexandre Loubet (RN MP for Moselle), François Durvye (special adviser to the RN president, with a background in finance and close to the entrepreneur Pierre-Édouard Stérin) and Ambroise de Rancourt (chief of staff to Marine Le Pen).

The battle is not yet won, but contacts between the RN and the business world—which have long ignored one another—are becoming increasingly frequent. MEDEF denies any biased favouritism but explains that it wishes to approach the situation pragmatically and denies any promotional strategy. For Le Monde, this is a deliberate communication strategy accepted by both sides that contributes to the ‘de-demonisation’ of the RN: “As news of the leaked meeting spreads, business circles are taking to the press to denigrate their interlocutor, the RN is patting itself on the back for gaining access and for explaining its economic programme, and meetings continue to be arranged.”

On the Left and within the trade union movement, the bosses’ exchanges with the RN are making some people’s blood boil. The national secretary of the CFDT, one of the main trade unions, condemns the “cynicism” of business leaders who prioritise the economy above all else and care little for morality, thereby helping to turn the RN—the ultimate crime—into “a party like any other.”

The minister for the economy, Roland Lescure, also states that he wishes to keep his distance: “I don’t dine with the far right,” he told the press.

Several figures in the business world are seriously alarmed. One of them, Pascal Demurger, director of MAIF, one of France’s largest personal insurance groups, even wrote an opinion piece in Le Monde to condemn these repeated exchanges. The main risk, he argues, is that this could confer on the RN “respectability and technical credibility” capable of “accelerating its victory,” even though its rise to power would be “a disaster for France.”

These concerns might be taken seriously if the country were in a thriving economic situation that the RN’s rise to power would endanger. This is not the case, and we now know that Macron’s economic record in this regard is particularly disastrous.

On the Left, the issue of the RN’s rapprochement with big business is a sensitive one, likely to provoke a certain hysteria around the well-known historical theme: “It was the big bosses who enabled Hitler’s rise to power.” Johann Chapoutot, a historian of Nazism and professor at the Sorbonne—now an avowed far-left activist—has made this line of argument his stock-in-trade: “It was the authoritarian liberals who brought the Nazis to power,” he explained a few months ago in an interview with the communist newspaper L’Humanité.

Voters who, at the local level, tend to support the RN’s governance are certainly becoming less and less receptive to this sort of outlandish argument.

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Starmer insisted on appointing Epstein’s pal Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, and he’s paying the price for it.

Failing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has admitted that he misled Parliament over Lord Mandelson’s failed vetting – but is claiming he did not do it ‘knowingly’.

🚨BREAKING: Keir Starmer has admitted to 'inadvertently' misleading Parliament over Lord Mandelson's appointment.@JuliaHB1 pic.twitter.com/z1Na06bIfC

— Talk (@TalkTV) April 20, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“Downing Street suggested that the Prime Minister would use a statement to the Commons on Monday to acknowledge that he had misled MPs when he said the former US ambassador had cleared his security checks.”

But his spokesman insists that Starmer denies lying on purpose to the House of Commons.

“However, Sir Keir failed to tell MPs about the vetting failure at Prime Minister’s Questions last Wednesday, a day after he had been told.”

Starmer previously insisted no less than three times that “full due process” was followed.

In another The Telegraph article, it arises that Starmer ‘was warned about the red flags that led to Lord Mandelson failing his developed vetting security clearance.’

“The Prime Minister will argue in the Commons on Monday that it was “unforgivable” he was not told Lord Mandelson had failed the process during his appointment as US ambassador. But senior Whitehall sources said Sir Keir had already been alerted to the underlying security concerns, and pressed ahead with the appointment regardless.

Those concerns centered on Lord Mandelson’s links to Russia and China, which led officials from the UK Security Vetting agency (UKSV) to advise against giving him the green light, sources claimed. That recommendation was later overruled by Sir Olly Robbins, the former Foreign Office chief.”

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will battle to save his job this afternoon by explaining to Parliament how officials supposedly did not tell him that Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting.

Starmer will be faced with allegations that he misled Parliament after telling MPs… pic.twitter.com/yQhLxtQrBD

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) April 20, 2026

Starmer fired Robbins last week, and his cabinet ministers insisted that he would have blocked the appointment had he known.

“But senior Whitehall sources told The Telegraph that the UKSV findings largely restated security risks that had already been drawn to Sir Keir’s attention.

One senior source with knowledge of the process said: ‘The reality is that Starmer had already been warned about the major risks and he had waved them away’.”

Labour is expected to lose as many as 2,000 seats in May’s local elections, which may serve as a catalyst for an ousting of Starmer as party leader.

'The issue comes down to whether he knowingly misled Parliament. If he did then he would have to resign…'

Nigel Nelson says 'there's an awful lot' about Sir Keir Starmer's excuses for Peter Mandelson's apppointment that doesn't 'stack up'.

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— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 19, 2026

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by Giulio Meotti

The United Nations Economic and Social Council has just appointed Iran to the Committee for Programme and Coordination – the body that sets the global direction on human rights, women’s rights, disarmament, and counter-terrorism.

In the same round of votes, China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan were elected by acclamation to the Committee on NGOs – the very tribunal that decides which civil society organizations are allowed to enter the sacred temple of human rights in Geneva.

Only the United States had the courage to call Iran, Cuba, and Nicaragua “unfit.” The rest of the so-called “free world” – Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, Finland, Switzerland, and Austria – approved the appointments.

The theocratic Iran that slaughters dissidents, brutally represses women who dare to show a lock of hair, finances Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, spreading terror from Lebanon to Yemen, and that has massacred thousands of protesters in recent months, will now sit and decide global policies on women’s rights and the fight against terrorism.

This is the third major appointment for Iran at the UN in just one month. First, the Iranian regime was elected vice-president (Abbas Tajik) of the UN Commission for Social Development, which deals with “the promotion of democracy, gender equality, and the guarantee of tolerance and non-violence.” Then Tehran secured the vice-presidency of the commission tasked with implementing the United Nations Charter.

With its total surveillance apparatus and the re-education camps in Xinjiang – where one million Uyghurs are “re-educated” through forced labor, sterilizations, and indoctrination – Beijing will now oversee the NGOs that dare to criticize authoritarian regimes.

The scene is worthy of the Palace of the Absurd: a Tibetan dissident or a Hong Kong human rights lawyer who requests a hearing at the UN only to find themselves facing a Chinese Communist Party official who decides whether their voice deserves to be heard.

Then there’s Cuba. The island that exports misery and repression, where opponents end up in prison for “crimes against the revolution,” now sits with veto power over the NGOs that would like to denounce these violations.

This NGO Committee has the power to accredit or de-accredit thousands of civil society groups. With a majority of dictatorships inside it, the risk – already highlighted by UN Watch – is glaring: the few independent voices at the UN that denounce the Uyghur genocide, Iranian repression, and Cuban prisons will be rejected, while the puppet NGOs created by the regimes themselves will be promoted – those that chant the mantra of “human rights with Eastern characteristics.”

Hillel Neuer of UN Watch said: “It’s like putting Al Capone in charge of the fight against organized crime.” He’s right, but it might actually be even worse.

At least Al Capone never pretended to be the champion of international legality.

They call it “multilateralism,” but it is the surrender of Western universalism to the most hypocritical cultural relativism.

The UN no longer defends human rights. It defends the right of dictators not to be disturbed while they trample them.

The latest mention of Iran by the UN Women agency dates back to October 5, 2022: “Standing with Iranian women, free to exercise autonomy over their own bodies”. Eureka!

In the past month, the UN Women agency has written about poverty and war in Sudan, Lebanese women victims of Israeli bombs, online misogyny, sport as inclusion, and the empowerment of Christina Koch (the first woman on a lunar mission), Dolores Huerta (trade union leader and feminist), Jane Goodall, Maya Angelou, and Aretha Franklin (the famous “R-E-S-P-E-C-T”). Zero on Iran.

Zero on Bita Hemmati, the first Iranian woman sentenced to death by the regime for the January protests, along with three other demonstrators-protests during which the regime killed at least thirty thousand people. Among the charges against those sentenced to death, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, there is also “collaboration with the United States,” in addition to “moharebeh,” a term present in a Quranic verse that means “waging war against God.” The regime accused her of throwing objects, participating in protest demonstrations, and being a “threat to national security.” In Iran’s theocracy, a woman is not a sovereign body; she is merely territory to be conquered and a symbol to be subjugated.

The statistics are chilling and speak a language that no Western euphemism can soften. In 2025, Iran officially carried out 1,630 death sentences, the highest number ever. The ayatollahs’ regime has thus sent at least four citizens to death by hanging every day. Crimes punishable by capital punishment in Iran range from drug trafficking to “corruption on Earth”- the charge frequently used as accusations against protesters in recent years.

Bita Hemmati will be the first woman explicitly hanged for participating in the January 2026 protests. Hemmati had appeared in a video broadcast by state television in January, while being interrogated by the Revolutionary Guards and “confessing” her crimes.

The regime uses the gallows as a pedagogy of terror: sham trials, confessions extracted under torture, judges issuing verdicts “in the name of Allah.” Just like in the case of the wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi, executed at the age of nineteen.

Where have the great feminist marches gone?

Where are the influencers who shout “my body, my choice” when it comes to white, bourgeois bodies, but fall silent in front of Iranian bodies that are whipped, blinded by pellets, or hanged for claiming the same principle?

Contemporary feminism, at least in its mainstream version, has carefully chosen its enemies: white patriarchy, colonialism, Islamophobia. The Shia theocratic patriarchy, on the other hand, is absolved with the excuse of anti-colonialism or “geopolitical complexity,” while Western universities host conferences on “queer Islam” or on the veil as an act of resistance. Cultural relativism, once a sophisticated critique of ethnocentrism as Claude Lévi-Strauss intended it, has thus become an alibi for cowardice.

On the cover of Italian weekly L’Espresso, Bita Hemmati would have looked far better than the “colonialist” Israeli soldier: young, blonde, without a veil, free. But the Iranian regime laughs at our cowardice. And it’s about time we stopped giving them that pleasure.

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